extension
See also: extensión
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English extensioun, from Old French estension, from Latin extensiō, extensiōnem.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editextension (countable and uncountable, plural extensions)
- The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase.
- Next month the house is undergoing an extension.
- Due to the unforeseen circumstances, you are allowed an extension of two weeks to complete the task.
- The state of being extended.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- For station is properly no rest, but one kind of motion, relating unto that which physicians (from Galen) do name extensive or tonical; that is, an extension of the muscles and organs of motion, maintaining the body at length, or in its proper figure.
- That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension").
- A part of a building that has been added onto the original.
- An outgrowth; a part of something that extends its capabilities.
- Parents who treat their children as an extension of themselves
- My research is an extension of the work of my mentor.
- 1978 December 9, Mitzel, “Post-Briggs Blues”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 20, page 5:
- In smaller communities, the public schools are virtual extensions of each town's chief religion — "educating" kids to all the prejudices of that belief.
- (semantics) Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension.
- 2023 March 14, Caryn James, “John Wick: Chapter 4: 'Soars above most action films'”, in BBC[1]:
- Perversely, we love John Wick himself. That lethal, bereaved assassin is a good bad guy for our times, the natural extension of Tony Soprano, Walter White and all the other heroic antiheroes the culture has embraced.
- 2011 July 20, Edwin Mares, “Propositional Functions”, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy[2], retrieved 2012-07-15:
- In addition to concepts and conceptual senses, Frege holds that there are extensions of concepts. Frege calls an extension of a concept a ‘course of values’. A course of values is determined by the value that the concept has for each of its arguments. Thus, the course of values for the concept __ is a dog records that its value for the argument Zermela is the True and for Socrates is the False, and so on. If two concepts have the same values for every argument, then their courses of values are the same. Thus, courses of values are extensional.
- (linguistics, semantics) semantic widening, broadening of meaning
- (banking, finance) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
- (medicine) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
- (weightlifting) An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance.
- (fencing) A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward.
- (telecommunications) A numerical code used to indicate a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.
- (computing) Ellipsis of file extension.
- Files with the .txt extension usually contain text.
- 1989, PC Mag, volume 8, number 5, page 276:
- If you plan to plot data with error bars, you must name them with an. ERR extension. Failure to do so will crash the system, and you will lose your precious work.
- (computing) An optional software component that adds functionality to an application.
- a browser extension
- (logic) The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate.
- (grammar) A kind of derivative morpheme applied to verbs in Bantu languages.
- (ring theory, of an ideal in the domain of a ring homomorphism) The ideal in the codomain generated by the image of the given ideal under the given homomorphism.
- (education) University programs that are targeted at the broader (usually adults) community whose participants are not full-time enrolled students.
Synonyms
edit- (semantics): denotation
Antonyms
edit- (antonym(s) of “act of extending”): shortening
- (antonym(s) of “broadening of meaning”): limitation
- (antonym(s) of “exercise”): curl
Derived terms
edit- agricultural extension
- algebraic extension
- back extension
- Buck's extension
- by extension
- conservative extension
- convergent extension
- curb extension
- demarc extension
- extension block
- extension cable
- extension cord
- extension field
- extension ladder
- extension lead
- extensionless
- extension reel
- Extension Scout
- extension table
- field extension
- file extension
- filename extension
- Galois extension
- hair extension
- hyperextension
- Kan extension
- leg extension
- life extension
- metaphorical extension
- normal extension
- over-extension
- overextension
- penis extension
- prototype extension
- separable extension
- simple extension
- tiller extension
- triceps extension
- under-extension
- underextension
- university extension
- university extensional
Related terms
edit- extend (verb)
- extense
- extent
- (semantics): intension
- (semantics): comprehension
Translations
editact of extending or the state of being extended
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anatomy: that property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space
part of a building that has been added to the original
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semantics: capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects
semantics: semantic widening
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finance: written engagement on the part of a creditor
medicine: operation of stretching a broken bone
weightlifting: an exercise
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fencing: a simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward
telecommunication: phone extension number
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computing: file extension
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computing: optional software component
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See also
editAnagrams
editBrunei Malay
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English extension.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editextension
- (colloquial) extension cord (electrical cord with multi-port socket)
French
editEtymology
editInherited from Old French estension, borrowed from Latin extentiōnem.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editextension f (plural extensions)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editFurther reading
edit- “extension”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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